daveb@laidbak.UUCP (Dave Burton) (03/15/88)
I just received a little blurb from Prentice-Hall Publishers about K&R, *second* edition. According to P-H, it was published in Jan. 1988. Ok, I have the King James version. Is this NASB, NIV, or what? Who has heard anything about this 2E? Seen it? What was wrong with the first edition? :-) -- --------------------"Well, it looked good when I wrote it"--------------------- Verbal: Dave Burton Net: ...!ihnp4!laidbak!daveb V-MAIL: (312) 505-9100 x325 USSnail: 1901 N. Naper Blvd. #include <disclaimer.h> Naperville, IL 60540
gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) (03/20/88)
In article <1379@laidbak.UUCP> daveb@laidbak.UUCP (Dave Burton) writes: >I just received a little blurb from Prentice-Hall Publishers >about K&R, *second* edition. According to P-H, it was published >in Jan. 1988. Okay, since the cat is now out of the bag: Yes, Kernighan & Ritchie revised the C book and sent it off to Prentice-Hall to be published as the second edition. I haven't seen the final publication yet, although it might have been printed and distributed by now (I don't know what the turnaround time is), but I did review a draft copy so I pretty much know what the second edition contains. Generally: virtually all the minor annoyances of the first edition have been cleaned up; more examples have been added; and the language definition has been changed to be ANSI C (with possible small deviations due to having to work from drafts rather than the final standard, which hasn't yet been produced). I would say this edition is significantly better than the first, which was of course a classic.
romain@pyrnj.uucp (Romain Kang) (03/22/88)
One of my friends, who happens to be in P-H marketing, has had access to some of the "historical documents" related to the first edition. The first advertisement comprised just a few lines buried inside of a much larger display. Also, one marketing letter (perhaps from one of the authors) noted that there were approximately 130 UNIX sites, and that P-H should expect to sell an average of 9 copies per site! (At last count, over a million copies of the first edition had been printed...)